Attachment for linter-gins.



No. 867,412. PATENTED OUT. 1, 1907. W. REINHARDT & H. W. BAYLISS. ATTACHMENT FOR LINTER GINS.

APPLICATION I'ILBD JAN. 12, 1907.

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PATENTED 001. 1, 1907. W. REINHARDT & H. W.-B-AYLISS.

ATTACHMENT FOR LINTER GINS.

APPLIOAI'ION FILED JAN.12,1907.

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WITNESSES t A TTOR/VE VS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ATTACHMENT FOR LINTER-GINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1907.

Application filed January 12, 1907'. Serial No. 351,995.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM REINHARD'I and HENRY W. BAYLISS, citizens of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Linter-Gins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to attachments for linter gins whereby lint cotton, known in the art as linters, may be wrapped in a continuous strip between a strip of paper so as to prevent waste as well as render the material more convenient to handle. As is well known linters or lint cotton is a product of cotton seed oil mills and it consists of the second cut of lint from the cotton seed after it comes from the cotton gin. Heretofore this product has been put up in bales but this has been found objectionable inasmuch as a considerable quantity of the linters becomes lost and moreover the material is difiicult to handle and easily becomes coininingled with dust, etc.

The object of the present invention is, as heretofore stated, to so bundle the linters as to practically prevent any waste, to keep the product clean, and to enable it to be easily handled.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features ofconstruction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

'In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred form of the invention.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the attachment and showing the same in position in front of a linter gin; Fig. 2 is a section through said attachment; Fig. 3 is a plan View thereof, a portion of the linter gin being also shown; and Fig. 4 is a detail view of the sectional take-up roll.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 is a linter gin of the usual or any preferred construction and disposed in front thereof is the bundling attachinent consisting of a frame 2 having parallel shafts 3 and 4 journaled therein. These shafts carry supporting rolls 5 and 6 respectively and an inclined guide board 7 extends from the outlet of the linter gin downward to a point above the roll 5.

Standards 8 are disposed upon the sides of frame 2 and have longitudinal slots 9 therein each slot having a box 10 slidably mounted therein and forming a bearing for a shaft 11. Secured 011 this shaft are semi-cylindrical take-up roll sections 12 having outstanding earsv 13 at their ends adapted to be bolted together so that the roll will be cylindrical in contour and will bind upon and rotate with the shaft 11.

A bracket 14 is located upon each side of the frame 2 and constitutes a bearing for a stud shaft 15 on which is mounted a large gear 16. This gear meshes with another gear 17 secured upon one end of shaft 3and formed upon the inner face of gear 16 is a spiral series of teeth 18 adapted to mesh with a small gear 19 secured to the shaft 11. This arrangement of gears is provided at each side of the frame 2 and as a result it will be apparent that when the gears 17 rotate with the roll 5 the gear 16 will also be rotated and will cause the spiral gears 18 to ride under the small gears 19 and rotate them and roll 5 as Well as move said roll vertically within the slotted standards 8.

Standards 20 are located upon the sides of frame 2 and constitute bearings for a shaft 21 supporting a roll 22 of paper.

A pulley 23 is secured to one end of the shaft 3 and is adapted to be driven by a belt 24 extending around the pulley 25 on the shaft 26 of the linter gin 1.

The operation of the apparatus herein described is as follows: A roll 22 of paper is placed on the shaft 20 and the end of the paper web is drawn under the inclined guide board 7 and is inserted between the sections of the roll 12 and clamped between them. The machine is then set in motion and the shaft 3 is rotated by belt 24 thereby causing the gears 17 to rotate the gears 16. These will in turn cause the spiral gears 18 to travel under and to rotate the small gears 19 thereby rotating the shaft 12 and gradually moving it vertically within the standards 8. Linters are directed from the gin 1 along the board 7 and on to the paper sheet close to the pass between the rolls 5 and 12, and the linters and paper are thus rolled around the roll 12 and said roll is gradually moved upward as it rotates so as to accommodate the gradually increasing roll of material thereon. After the paper and linters have been wrapped about the roll 12 said roll is removed from the machine and the sections thereof disconnected and withdrawn after which the bundle of material can be readily transported.

It will be noted that this apparatus is very simple in construction and constitutes an eflicient means for bundling or wrapping the linters. At the same time it prevents any waste of the linters and preserves it in a clean state.

The preferred form of the invention has been set forth in the foregoing description but we do not limit ourselves thereto as we are aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages thereof, and we therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the claims.

What is claimed is:

1. An attachment for linter gins comprising a take-up roll, means for detachably securing a paper web thereto,

means extending longitudinally above a portion of the- 2. An attachment for linter gins comprising a sectional take-up roll for clamping upon a paper web, means for directing linters from the gin and on to the web, means operated by the gin for positively rotating the take-up roll to Wrap the linters and web thereon in alternate layers, and means for positively shifting the roll to maintain the outer layer of material constantly in the same plane.

3. An attachment for linter gins comprising a take-up roll, means for securing a paper Web thereto, supporting r-olls disposed beneath and adapted to contact with the paper Web, and means operated by the gin for rotating the takeup roll to wrap the linters and Web thereon in alternate'layers, said means adapted to gradually shift the take-up roll to maintain the outer layer of material thereon in contact with the supporting rolls.

4. An attachment for gins comprising a takeaip roll, means for detachably securing a paper web thereto, a spiral gear, a gear rotatable with the take-up roll and meshing with the spiral gear, and means operated by the gin for rotating the spiral gear to simultaneously and positively rotate the take-up roll and shift it perpendicularly to its axis.

5. An attachment for linter gins comprising guides, 21 take-up roll mounted therebetween, means for detachably securing a paper web to said roll, spiral gears adjacent the roll, gears upon the roll and meshing with the spiral gears, and means operated by the gin for rotating the spiral gears to positively rotate the take-up roll and shift it perpendicularly to its axis.

6. An attachment for linter gins comprising guides, a take-up roll mounted therebetween, means for detachably securing a paper web to said roll, spiral gears adjacent the roll, gears upon the roll and meshing with the spiral gears, means operated by the gin for rotating the spiral gears to rotate the take-up roll and shift it perpendicularly to its axis, means for directing linters from the gin on to the web, and supporting rolls adjacent the takeaip roll.

7. An attachment for linter gins comprising a sectional takeaip roll, a paper roll supporting device, said take-up roll adapted to receive and clamp upon a web of paper from the paper rolls, guide standards, boxes therein coir stituting journals for the take-up roll, gears rotatable with the take-up roll, spiral gears meshing therewith. and means operated by the gin for rotating the spiral gears to simultaneously rotate and shift the take-up roll.

8. An attachment for linter gins comprising a sectional take-up roll, guides, boxes movably mounted within the guides and constituting journals for the rolls, gears rotatable with the take-up roll, spiral gears meshing with and adapted to Slll1llll'illl0()ll$] rotate and shift the gears at the take-up roll, means for attaching a paper \\t,]\ to the take-up roll, means for directing linters from the gin on to the web, and means operated by the gin for rotating the spiral gears.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, We have hereto atiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ltl llNllAltl V1, HENRY \V. BAYMSS.

, Witnesses M. W. ALLEN, A. L. GARDNER. 

